{"id":6483,"date":"2013-10-17T10:29:55","date_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:29:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/?p=6483"},"modified":"2013-10-17T10:29:55","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T16:29:55","slug":"does-the-lunatic-fringe-rule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/does-the-lunatic-fringe-rule\/","title":{"rendered":"Does the lunatic fringe rule?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ej-dionne-shutdown-resolution-has-a-lesson-for-moderates\/2013\/10\/16\/9084d048-369d-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html?wprss=rss_ej-dionne\">E.J. Dionne: Shutdown resolution has a lesson for moderates &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a> <\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>[A]s long as more middle-of-the-road conservatives hang back because they fear primary challenges, scoldings from Heritage Action or occasional insults from the talk-show barons, the Republican Party will remain in receivership.  <\/p>\n<p>Those who genuinely want a more moderate approach to politics must also reflect on what just happened. <\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/opinions\/ej-dionne-shutdown-resolution-has-a-lesson-for-moderates\/2013\/10\/16\/9084d048-369d-11e3-8a0e-4e2cf80831fc_story.html?wprss=rss_ej-dionne\">E.J. Dionne: Shutdown resolution has a lesson for moderates &#8211; The Washington Post<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>E.J. Dionne: Shutdown resolution has a lesson for moderates &#8211; The Washington Post [A]s long as more middle-of-the-road conservatives hang back because they fear primary challenges, scoldings from Heritage Action or occasional insults from the talk-show barons, the Republican Party will remain in receivership. Those who genuinely want a more moderate approach to politics must &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/election\/does-the-lunatic-fringe-rule\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Does the lunatic fringe rule?<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6483"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6484,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6483\/revisions\/6484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.edgewiseblog.com\/mjh\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}